Siobhan Kelly

Practice Areas

Partner, Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury.

Siobhan is passionate about helping vulnerable claimants recover compensation where they have sustained an injury or condition through no fault of their own, often with life changing and devastating consequences.

She has a wide range of experience of acting for claimants in cases involving serious injuries or death. Cases include brain injuries arising from medical treatment and road traffic accidents, mismanagement of vascular conditions and severe orthopaedic injuries. Siobhan also regularly acts for people who have been detained in immigration detention centres where the health care that they have received has caused their health to deteriorate often resulting in a catastrophic illness.

Siobhan is presently a trustee Headway North West London, her local brain injury charity who provide support and services to people who have suffered an acquired brain injury. She is also offers support to the London Irish Centre and sits on their Welfare Committee.

Career

Siobhan joined Bindmans in 2003 and became a Partner in 2010.

Siobhan’s cases include:

Siobhan’s cases are high value and often complex regularly touching on human rights and public law issues. She is currently acting in a number of cases which include brain injury, spinal injury injuries arising from compartment syndrome. She regularly acts for Claimants and bereaved families in cases involving asbestos related diseases such as Mesothelioma

Siobhan works closely with medical charities who challenge the standard of healthcare provided to immigration detainees. She handles many clinical negligence cases for detainees whose health may have suffered as a result of substandard healthcare provided during their detention often with devastating consequences

Her cases often involve interesting point of law. Recently Siobhan represented the brain injured child in the landmark case of Toropdar -v- D, where an insurance company was refused a negative declaration that it was not liable to a victim in a personal injury case. She went on to negotiate a settlement in excess of £4 million on a full liability basis

Other recent settlements include a settlement with a capitalised value of over £6.5 million for a young boy who sustained cerebral palsy at birth, £615,000.00 for a young girl as a result of negligent orthopaedic surgery, £550,000 for a man who suffered an above knee amputation as a result of negligent vascular surgery and £85,000 for Claimant who developed Mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos during his employment

Professional Memberships

Association of Victims of Medical Accidents

Headway

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers

Medical Justice Network